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tlacanacayo.

Headword: 
tlacanacayo.
Principal English Translation: 

something invested with human flesh (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācanacayoh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑnɑkɑyoh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCANACAYOH something invested with human flesh / tiene carne humana (C) [(1)Cf.54v]. M has tlacanacatl ‘human flesh.’ See TLĀCA-TL, NAC(A)-TL, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.